Member

In conclusion, I understand and sympathise with the Government’s wish to prevent abuse of the ability of a landlord to ask a tenant to leave. However, not only does the data suggest that 12 months is unnecessarily long for these properties to be held as unavailable for tenants to rent, but the market economics indicate that a landlord would simply find their property unrentable at the well above market rates necessary to achieve the possible abuse the Government are anxious about. If a property is really being rented out below market rates, the landlord would be within their rights simply to seek a rent increase.